Director gliding in a nematic liquid crystal layer: Quantitative comparison with experiments
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Substrate-induced gliding in a nematic liquid crystal layer.
We consider the interaction between nematic liquid crystals (NLCs) and polymer substrates. Such substrates can interact with NLCs, exhibiting a phenomenon known as director gliding: the preferred orientation of the NLC molecules at the interface changes on time scales that are slow relative to the elastic relaxation time scale of the NLC. We present two models for gliding, inspired by experimen...
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عنوان ژورنال: Physical Review E
سال: 2018
ISSN: 2470-0045,2470-0053
DOI: 10.1103/physreve.97.032704